ST. PETERSBURG RESULTS. Petra Kvitova aces Van Uytvanck in the 2nd round

Petra Kvitova ousts Alison Van Uytvanck 7-6¹ 1-6 6-2 in the 2^nd round in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Kvitova will clash against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Czech won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 5^th (2-3) game. Petra broke back in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 1.

2^nd set.

Kvitova started the set strong after breaking Van Uytvanck in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Belgian was not done to come back to break Petra 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Kvitova was powerless in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Van Uytvanck had a strong start of this set after breaking Kvitova in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Kvitova succeeded in coming back to break Alison 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

The Belgian was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Petra scored 110 points vs. the Belgian’s 105 points.

Kvitova was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (6/12). On the other side, Van Uytvanck was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 29% – 6/21). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Kvitova and Van Uytvanck is 1-0 for Petra.

Highlights Petra Kvitova vs. Alison Van Uytvanck St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy – St. Petersburg

Next Match H2H: Petra Kvitova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats

Kvitova will play Alexandrova in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Petra Kvitova and Ekaterina Alexandrova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kvitova won 6-1 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Melbourne back in January 2020.

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Maria SakkariSakkari – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-6¹ 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Oceane DodinDodin – Johanna KontaKonta (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Fiona FerroFerro (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Belinda BencicBencic – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – See H2H details
• Oceane DodinDodin – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details